Ukraine's parliament on June 23 set a presidential election for January 17, according to a Reuters reporter watching proceedings.
Unknown individuals opened fire on Belarusian border guards from Ukrainian territory on June 22, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
EU leaders focused almost exclusively on domestic challenges during their two-day summit. Opting for continuity in a time of crisis, Jose Manuel Barroso was picked for a second term as president of the European Commission, while Ireland received legal guarantees in the hope it will ratify the EU's constitutional Lisbon Treaty in a second referendum in October.
International financial institutions are willing to help provide "stop-gap funding" to Ukraine to help it deal with problems paying for Russian gas imports, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on June 19.
A Ukrainian cargo plane bound for Equatorial Guinea has been impounded in Nigeria after security officers found weapons and ammunition on board, a Nigerian official and Ukrainian media said.
Ukraine's transport minister resigned on June 17, the fourth minister to leave the cabinet this year, after accusing Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko of blocking funds for the Euro-2012 football championship.
It has been just over a month since the European Union attempted to draw six post-Soviet neighbors -- Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia -- closer to its orbit with its Eastern Partnership program. But a new report by the European Council on Foreign Relations blasts the EU for what it calls its "complacent" and "long-term" strategy in the region, and warns that without fast action to engage the eastern neighbors, Europe could risk another "August surprise" with Russia --
Locals and tourists on Crimea's Black Sea coast are destroying fences put up by local businesses that limit access to beaches, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is considering two candidates for the vacant defense minister's post, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
At least a dozen statues of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin remain standing in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Some residents see them as simple historical monuments; others have tried to take down the statues with their own hands. But as disputes continue at the municipal and national levels, Lenin isn't likely to disappear from the city any time soon.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has announced that the government will bail out three of five banks hit particularly hard by the financial crisis, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
Some 300 NGO members and business owners in Kyiv picketed the Ukrainian parliament to demand the resignation of the capital's controversial mayor, Leonid Chernovetsky, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
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